Cannabis Cafes Here

[joggerjayne]

http://www.telegraph....afes-in-Brighton.html

How coolio would that be !!

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[WyeDyed]

Sir.prize in many circles cannabis is socially acceptable.
Your image of the dope smoking layabout is, in millions of cases, factually incorrect.
Just as the vast majority of people who drink alcohol are not violent yobs.

[DaisyNonna]

Jno, at what age is sexual intercourse acceptable?

[jno]

age limits are a slightly different matter, DaisyNonna, as they involve adults deciding when children are grown up; and adults do have a duty to look after children.

I'm talking about the wishes of the adult public.

[sir.prize]

WyeDyed . .in my book anything that is unlawful is not socially acceptable. erin-x - - who first mentioned socially acceptable?

Excuse me folks, just 10minutes left and I need to have my football 'fix'. Talk amongst yourself for a while.

[erin-x]

I may have insinuated it but it was you who inferred it.

[DaisyNonna]

Thank goodness I am not one of the adult public who thinks sex is OK for young people who are not legally adult.

[MarkRae]

Daisy, you're now trying to divert an argument which you know you've already lost by pretending that the issue under discussion is something that it's not...

[EDDIE51]

Nicotine would be a class A drug if it was introduced today . Nicotine and Heroin are chemically virtually identical , just one or two chemical bonds in a diffrent orientation . Nicotine is actually MORE addictive than Heroin!! , it is easier to get off Heroin than it is to give up smoking. In addition smoking tobacco does far more damage than using pure Heroin , due to the 2,000 or so other toxins in the smoke. The main problem with Heroin is that as it is illegal there is no quality control , it is always 'cut' with other substances such as strychnine .

[237SJ]

<<people smoke because they like it, same as alcohol and cigarettes. It seems to do less harm than both>> Unless of course, one has the tinyest propensity to schizophrenia, in which case it can take them completely "up the stick".

[jno]

the tiniest propensity to alcoholism - or to driving fast - can be equally dangerous with alcohol. But you're talking about the exception, not the rule.

[EDDIE51]

The 'old' 1960/70 cannabis was much less harmfull. The stuff about now ''skunk weed'' is over 30 times as strong and is very harmfull it causes mental problems . The problem is a lot of us on AB are 'boom babies' who were teenagers in the 60s , we think of cannabis as the same stuff we knew back then. I have lived for 3 years in Zambia cannabis grew wild every where, banning it would have been like trying to ban nettles or dandelions here. But it was the old natural type not 'skunk'.

[DaisyNonna]

Sorry Mark, I am not. Stand by what I said. Cannabis is illegal. End of story.
Other things are illegal and being ignored.

[237SJ]

Sorry, I don`t go with the analogy between alcohol, cigarettes and dope/drugs. I don`t have strong feelings against dope. I have tried it. Not in this country but abroad. I personally think it turns people into rambling bores. There is proof that today`s dope (which is much higher in THC) can accentuate schizophrenia in people that are susceptible. In that respect, I think dope can`t be compared to legal "highs"

[erin-x]

They are being ignored because they are not the issue here, Daisy.

[MarkRae]

I accept your apology, Daisy.

[jno]

I personally think it turns people into rambling bores

You'll recover, 237SJ! :-)

[jno]

that's not necessarily so, Eddie51 - see the first item here

http://www.dope-seeds...ntoldstory/hemp_6.htm

(that seems like a rather partial website; but I've heard the same claim from less biased sources.)

[237SJ]

NICE! (as they said on the Fast Show)!

[anotheoldgit]

Oh, so some think it would be perfectly acceptable to sit in a cafe smoking pot, but they would be 'up in arms' if anyone suggested bringing back the smoking of tobacco in pubs.

[Baldric]

Just a cheap shot by the Greens to try and attract a few extra votes!